Colorado Academy Upper School English teacher Betsey Coleman has been awarded a Distinguished Fulbright Award in Teaching grant to conduct research in Israel, according to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

 

Coleman is one of approximately 19 U.S. citizens, who will travel abroad through the Distinguished Fulbright Awards program for 2011-2012. Fulbright winners will enroll up in to two advanced undergraduate or graduate level classes at their host university, research and complete an action-based research project, observe classes or conduct seminars or workshops in local schools for host country teachers, and engage in other teaching related activities. Coleman will be based in Jerusalem for four months beginning in March.
 

Through her Coming of Age in the World freshman English course, Coleman teaches about the Israeli-Palestinian relationship through multiple lenses and voices of the popular and traditional arts. Her Fulbright grant will help her engage young people with the issues of the Israeli-Palestinian relationship through authentic voices and experiences of student and professional artists.

 

This is Coleman’s third Fulbright award. Previous studies were conducted in Thailand, Vietnam, and Syria. She also has been awarded scholarships form the English Speaking Union, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Facing History and Ourselves. This summer, she took courses on the Middle East and Global Education at Georgetown University and Boston College.

 

She also has taken courses at Trinity College, Oxford; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, McGill University, Canada, the University of Besancon, France, Yunnan University, Kunming, China; the Rothberg International School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Damascus, Syria; Yale University (Field Study in Tibet and Western China); and the W.B. Years Summer School in Sligo, Ireland. In 2011, she received a grant from the State Department’s Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) and taught at Takeo Regional Teacher’s College in Cambodia.
 

She holds a BA from Pitzer College and an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan.